3. Ephesians 5:22 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her… 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

5. 2 Weeks ago Galatians 5:1-6

6. Galatians 5:1-6 1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

7. Galatians 5:1-6 4 You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

8. Last Week’s Message Galatians 5:7-12 The Hope of Gospel Avoiding Landmines

9. Galatians 5:7-12 7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9 “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”

10. Galatians 5:7-12 10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be. 11 Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

12. Galatians 5:13-15 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

13. This Week’s Message Galatians 5:13-15 The Love of Gospel The Three Way Cage Match

14. Freedom! Galatians 5:13a 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

15. Freedom! um, from what? Galatians 5:13a 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

17. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you:

18. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 1.Live with a vague sense of His disapproval.

19. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 1.Live with a vague sense of His disapproval. 2.Feel ashamed bringing your needs before Him when you’ve just failed Him.

20. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 1.Live with a vague sense of His disapproval. 2.Feel ashamed bringing your needs before Him when you’ve just failed Him. 3.Think of His grace as something that makes up the difference between the best you can do and what He expects from you.

21. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 4.Feel you deserve an answer to prayer because of your hard work and sacrifice.

22. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 4.Feel you deserve an answer to prayer because of your hard work and sacrifice. 5.Assume that 1 John 1:9 no longer applies to you now that you’ve sinned so many times you’ve used up all your credit.

23. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 4.Feel you deserve an answer to prayer because of your hard work and sacrifice. 5.Assume that 1 John 1:9 no longer applies to you now that you’ve sinned so many times you’ve used up all your credit. 6.Feel more confident before Him if you’ve been “faithful” with your Christian disciplines (prayer, quiet time, witnessing, etc.).

24. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 7.Can’t honestly say you see yourself as “blameless” in His eyes.

25. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 7.Can’t honestly say you see yourself as “blameless” in His eyes. 8.Aren’t experiencing consistent peace and joy in your life.

26. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 7.Can’t honestly say you see yourself as “blameless” in His eyes. 8.Aren’t experiencing consistent peace and joy in your life. 9.Don’t really believe He likes you.

27. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 7.Can’t honestly say you see yourself as “blameless” in His eyes. 8.Aren’t experiencing consistent peace and joy in your life. 9.Don’t really believe He likes you. 10.Can think of someone you look down on.

28. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 11.Shy away from asking Him things because you think it annoys Him.

29. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 11.Shy away from asking Him things because you think it annoys Him. 12.Haven’t recently been tempted to go ahead and sin because you know your performance has nothing to do with your standing before Him.

30. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 11.Shy away from asking Him things because you think it annoys Him. 12.Haven’t recently been tempted to go ahead and sin because you know your performance has nothing to do with your standing before Him. 13.Think of the Christian life as what you do in a day rather than the chance to experience an unending supply of His goodness toward you.

31. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 14.Fear that the day may not go as well as expected because you missed your time in the Bible.

32. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 14.Fear that the day may not go as well as expected because you missed your time in the Bible. 15.Assume you can do something to make Him love you more or less.

33. From Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridges You know you don’t understand God’s grace when you: 14.Fear that the day may not go as well as expected because you missed your time in the Bible. 15.Assume you can do something to make Him love you more or less. 16.Believe you’ve been called into His service because of your worthiness or qualifications.

34. Freedom! um, from what?

35. Freedom! um, from what? GUILT SHAME THE GOSPEL OF SELF-EFFORT DESERVEDNESS FEELING UNLOVED IDENTITY AS FAILURE GLOOM & DOOM WRATH OF GOD PRIDE LAW LICENSE

36. The Three Way Cage Match Galatians 5:13 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

38. Law AKA Legalism or the “The Ethics of Obligation”

39. Licentiousness = Licentiousness AKA The Flesh or Lawlessness or “I’ll do whatever I feel like doing”

40. What is the Flesh?

41. Galatians 5:16-21 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

42. What is the Flesh? Galatians 5:16-21 19 The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

43. What is the Flesh? Romans 7:14-25 14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

44. What is the Flesh? Romans 7:14-25 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

45. What is the Flesh? Romans 7:14-25 21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

46. The Three Way Cage Match Galatians 5:13 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

47. Licentiousness = Love AKA The New Way or “Hey, I can actually stop being a selfish pig and care about others” way

48. “ Earlier in Galatians Paul introduced the concepts of freedom and love, but this is the first place he brought them together in a single thought. And, surprisingly, that which links freedom and love is the very thing Paul earlier said Christ has delivered us from: slavery. The English word “serve” does not adequately translate the Greek verb douleuete behind which stands the common Greek noun for slave, doulos.

49. “ Through love, Paul said, you should make yourselves slaves to one another. Thus freedom and slavery are not simply mutually exclusive terms; they stand in the closest possible relationship to one another and can only be adequately defined in terms of object and goal: what we are slave to and what we are free for. ~ Timothy George, Galatians, vol. 30, page 378.

50. How do I defeat Law? Galatians 5:14 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

51. Mark 12:28-31 28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” 29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

52. We see them now, no longer as hateful people who are trying to rob us of our rights, or trying to beat us in the race for money, or position or fame; we see them, as we see ourselves, as the victims of sin and of Satan, as the dupes of “the god of this world,” as fellow-creatures who are under the wrath of God and hell-bound. We have an entirely new view of them. We see them to be exactly as we are ourselves, and we are both in a terrible predicament. And we can do nothing;

53. but both of us together must run to Christ and avail ourselves of his wonderful grace. We begin to enjoy it together and we want to share it together. That is how it works. It is the only way whereby we can ever do unto others as we would that they should do unto us. It is when we are really loving our neighbor as ourselves because we have been delivered from the thralldom of self, that we begin to enjoy “the glorious liberty of the children of God.” ~ D. M. Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount Vol 2, pps 214–15.

54. How do I defeat Licentiousness? Galatians 5:15 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

57. “ A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owning a duty to everyone. ~ G. Ebeling, Luther: An Introduction to His Thought (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972), 212.

58. The Difficult Ride of the Christian Life Slippery Slope

59. The Difficult Ride of the Christian Life Slippery Slope Legalism

60. The Difficult Ride of the Christian Life Slippery Slope Legalism License

61. The Difficult Ride of the Christian Life Slippery Slope Legalism License Love

62. Gospel Application

63. Is your church characterized by love?